Friday, September 24, 2010

Renewable Music Landmarks

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I've been following Germany-based American composer Daniel Wolf's enlightening blog Renewable Music for some time now, and I got to...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

37 Ways to Play the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

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1720 Autograph of the Adagio Naturally, after the WTC playlist , I compiled another one for the supreme masterwork for the queen of all i...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

30 Ways to Play the Well-Tempered Clavier

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Today's post is about a 30-track playlist of music's most fascinating and intriguing work, The Well-Tempered Clavier composed by Jo...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Debussy, Mahler, and Scriabin Played By Themselves

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Spotify just added some of the most important piano roll recordings from Pierian Recording Society , including the complete known piano rol...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Classical Music Inspired By The Sea

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For this playlist I only selected music that actually depicts the sea, waves or a voyage, so no tone poems about Nereid or Neptune, nor ope...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The Greatest 20th Century String Quartet Composer?

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I'm still in the progress of making a 20th century string quartets playlist, on a one-quartet-per-composer basis. But I feel that I have...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Spotify Variations On The Theme Of 4'33"

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Another Alex Ross copycat playlist, this time inspired by his new blog post: 4'33" Playlist . To celebrate John Cage's 98th bir...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: A Spotify Playlist

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Alex Ross just published an audio guide for the second chapter of his new book Listen to This on his blog, but now the post is gone (thoug...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Complete Karajan Gold On Spotify

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Intro from DG's official site : "The compact disc, as a medium for sound, was still on the horizon when Herbert von Karajan urged ...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

The Art of 20th Century Fugue

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A perfect playlist to shake off the Friday fever: 30 fugues written in the 20th century. Starts with the solemn E minor fugue from Shostak...
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